Here at DataSift, we’re lucky to work with some amazing customers who are innovating in social to create the next-generation of social applications and platforms. NeedTagger is a great example of a company that is transforming what marketing means in the social-era. We caught up with Vernon Niven, CEO and founder of NeedTagger to learn more about his company and why intent marketing is taking marketing back to the basics by making social media “social”.

Start tracking and analyzing Twitter data for your organization in less than 10 minutes! DataSift, the most sophisticated platform for managing and filtering social data, is live today at 2pm GMT. We invite you to explore this revolutionary new platform that has been designed to make tracking and analyzing Social Media data easy. DataSift offers access to the complete range of Twitter content, but you only pay for the tweets that are actually useful to…

We have now officially launched the Alpha of DataSift and will now start sending out invites. For those not yet in the Alpha here are a few screenshots of the site. And if your interested in learning CSDL (Curated Stream Definition Language) which is our bespoke scripting language for content curation, you can go to our support site to learn all the details.

The power behind DataSift is our own proprietary curation engine which now is in its 4th major iteration. This is very much a cloud based solution bringing ease of use to a problem that for many companies is a very resource hungry and cost inefficient process to extract the data they want. DataSift has its own definition language called CDSL (Curated Stream Definition Language) and you can today go read the documentation which we have just put live….